Grandpa Bob the Woodsman

And you get plenty of exercise. This reccession has hit the ppl down here really hard. People that usually cut firewood for their own use are now making it into a business being more and more people are heating their homes with wood now instead of gas or electric so there is a high demand for firewood. We even sold a few cords this past winter but only because a friend ran out and we had a surplus of well-seasoned wood whereas the wood that was being sold all winter wasn't fully seasoned so don't burn well/low heat output.

My husband and son used to chop wood for the fireplace when we used it and for the bbq pit. We had land with a lot of mesquite trees at the time. We have not used the fireplace in years and years and just buy small bundles of wood for bbq and my son does at times have to chip and chop some of it into smaller pieces.

When i had a need for chopped wood. We use to chop our own. We had a set of woods on our land to do so. Where it cost us nothing but labor. But I tell you it is a real work out to lug it around.

Every time we take any trees out we save wood for use in our chiminea or to take to the lake with us. It is a lot of work, but very economical. Have fun with your firewood.

Gosh darn it Grandpa Bob. Hubby and I have been burning so much wood in our back yard fire pit and will be for the next few years from cleaning our woods out, we could've given it all to you!! ARG!! You just have to be so far away, don't you! lol We have anything from pines to oak but no fireplace so we burn it all in our fire pit. Such is life, I guess.

At my previous house in Massachusetts, I had several stumps on my property. I used a drill to partially hollow them out, and then used them as planters. As the wood decays, it makes an excellent medium for the plants you put in them. Of couse, all of the stumps that I did this to were away from the house. Termites and carpenter ants were not a problem that way.

I used to chop some wood for my grandma and it was hard work. If I had a wood burning fireplace I'd probably do it, too, but I have gas. I don't use it, though, as it has only a removable plate to open the flue and it's a pain to get it back in place. I'd like to redo the whole thing someday. I bet your muscles will be hurting a bit!

Oh yeah, we cut our own wood every winter, you should see it, we've got a big pile of wood right now, it looks like a mountain..lol. It is hard work, and I'm glad I don't have to run the chainsaw because I'd never be able to do it, but I do run the wood splitter and thats hard enough for me. Hey, its cheaper than buying it like you said, and its good exercise for you.

Hi GRANDPA BOB, Thats what you call cost cutters, save you some dollars there, and it must have been such a lot of hard work but in the end its worth all the hard work when you are sitting in front of the roarig fire. Tamara

For anyone that hasn't tried cutting wood/stumps/trees or just splitting busted up wood. It's very underrated. In Arkansas busting wood for fires in homes are pretty common. I stack split and stack most of our wood in the winter and man is it a hassle.

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